PARLIAMENT

Hon. Susantha Kumara Nawarathna,—To ask the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation,— (1)

(a) Will he inform this House—

(i) of the number of regional workshops owned by the Sri Lanka Transport Board;

(ii) of the areas where the workshops concerned have been established;

(iii) whether he is aware that a proposal had been made to start a tyre manufacturing factory within the Medawachchiya Regional Workshop of  Sri Lanka Transport Board;

(iv) if so, of the amount that had been allocated for  that; and

(v) of its progress as at 28^th February 2025?

(b) If not, why?